Rice at Texas
Saturday, October 24, 1953 Share
Rice beat Texas 18–13. It was their 40th meeting; after it, Texas led the series 25–15.
FinalHigh 69°F, low 63°FAttendance 48,000
In the newspapers

Evening star, District of Columbia, October 25, 1953, page 68
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Lost-Minute Pass Gives Rice 1913 Decision Over Texas after d 1877 loss to sMU last week The lead changed hands three times after Texas went ahead in the first quarter on a 1-yard plunge by George Robinson. Rice put on the same kind of furious drive in the second quarter that it did in the final period, scoring 19 seconds before the midway gun on a 9-yard sprint around right end by Dickey Moegle. Fenstemaker converted to put Rice ahead 7–6. Texas roared in front again in the third on a 27-yard pass from Charlie Bre;cr to End Menan ScnrieWer in t2e END zone. Pat Tolar of Texas intention ally grounded the ball in the end zone twice to give Rice four points as TeXos tried unsucceSsfully to make its two touchdowns stand up. Texas - 9 O 7 O-13 Rice q r q 1l-I8 Texas scoring: Touchdowns-Rob robinson, Schriewer. Conversion Branch. H,2t Rice sGoring; Togchdf1wnsmMOegIe a t e s--Tolar ca Intentionally grounded ball in end zone).
Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.
Before kickoff
Our ratings going in
Our ratings (scores only)
Texas 68% to win. Rice pulled the upset.
The series
Every Rice–Texas gameTexas leads 75–21–1 in 97 meetings, counting the 57 since this game.
| 2023 | Texas 37, Rice 10 | |
| 2021 | Texas 58, Rice 0 | |
| 2019 | Texas 48, Rice 13 | |
| 2015 | Texas 42, Rice 28 | |
| 2011 | Texas 34, Rice 9 | |
| 2010 | Texas 34, Rice 17 |
Around this game
Rice
- Next gamevs. KentuckyOct. 31, 1953
- SeasonRice in 1953
- ProgramRice history and records
Texas
- Next gameat SMUOct. 31, 1953
- SeasonTexas in 1953
- ProgramTexas history and records

